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Now, we’ve finally got the truth about Michael Jordan’s flu game.
For downs, there was Stockton hitting a last-second shot and tying the series 2-2, and more importantly, there was the flu game.
In The Last Dance, Jordan’s trainer, Tim Grover, tells the story of calling several Utah-area pizza places late at night to get a pie delivered.
Grover decided not to eat the pizza out of an abundance of caution– but Jordan decided to eat.
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Jordan would eventually wake up at 2 a.m. doubled over in pain with food poisoning, He’d be hooked up to an IV later in the day and was somehow able to play that night.
